Quotes about Transcendence

All theological language is an approximation, offered tentatively in holy awe. That's the best human language can achieve. We can say, "It's like—it's similar to…," but we can never say, "It is…" because we are in the realm of beyond, of transcendence, of mystery.

All great spirituality is somehow about letting go.

Life is a luminous pause between two great mysteries, which themselves are one.

This realization that Someone is living in us and through us is exactly how we plug into a much larger mind and heart beyond our own.

We are not just humans having a God experience. The Eucharist tells us that, in some mysterious way, we are God having a human experience!

As C. S. Lewis observed, "All that is not eternal is eternally useless." The Bible says, "We fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."12

May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be 'worldly'; nay, we even delight in not remaining 'in the world.'

We know that God's being is perfect, His essence infinite, His dominion absolute, His power unlimited, and His glory transcendent.

The issue of spiritual power is to meet the limited mortal circumstance with unlimited thought.

There is a form of communication that transcends the power of words.

We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.

Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.